The issue no one seems to realize is that the audience that is giving them hell is not people like you.
The ones that ARE giving them hell are those who download everything and anything, and share it all the time with anyone that can access their machine.
Now I'd say the majority of the people who do this would never all the music they download. Why? In some cases, yes, it's impossible. The other more likely case is that they sinmply don't want to now that they've gotten it for free.
This whole bitchfest is due to one big thing, and that is two tides of GREED clashing. One will win over the other, and the end result will likely not be good for anyone.
If the RIAA wins, we end up clamped down, litigated all the time for their greed and demands. They as the record companies are at a disadvantage due to the fact that they require money to exist as they do now.
If the filesharers win, while you might be satisfied with scraping through the thousands of independents, those who ARE really good and deserve/want a shot at a wider audience need support. And sometimes a creative work can cost more than a CD pressing run or a website. But even if they were to take that venture on their own, the filesharers come back in force and will more than likely chose to take the free route as opposed to ever buying the CD. Thus acts will stay small, good bands will come into existence, rock, and flick out without ever being known (I'm sure for every few bands your friends have heard of there were likely others you would have liked/ones that were better that you never heard of.)
Well if you don't go how the hell are the things that aren't there, going to? You can't just sit on your ass and wait for them to spontaneously pop into existence (unless you have real tea), then visit them.
Unlike air travel, with space flight you have to make your destination. That much should be obvious.
Being based on OpenGL, PDF, and making extensive use of TrueType fonts, I was under the impression that Quartz and MacOS X were aptly suited for this sort of use.
IIRC, essentially the entire UI is vector graphics (being done by OpenGL and all), so Apple might have this covered.
Indeed, a 200ppi display would be nice, but not at 21" or smaller sizes.
You post a copy of a work that doesn't belong to you on a network and thousands download it.
It's the same as any old copyright infringement, in that you do not have permission to distribute it.
There may be some flaky legal ground if you download something and own a copy already, but the person you got it from still violated the copyright.
A song is the same song, whether it's an OGG or on CD. It is a copy, albeit in a different format. And if you're going to nitpick about the format, then you're just trying to make excuses.
Copying the song to OGG or MP3 is fair use. Posting said song on Kazaa is copyright infringement because you do not have permission to distribute that song.
I modified one of the headline grabbers written in PHP on the slashdot faq page (ok, I rewrote the thing by hand to make it use mysql), and redid the output so it'd look decent on a cellphone.
Only problem is the comment itself isn't in the XML (hint hint!), so it's mostly useless. I even made it work with slashdot.jp, but I can't figure out how to make it convert from EUC to SJIS and JIS (some phones use JIS, some SJIS, none EUC).
Think, a bit more and one could totally geek out by reading and posting to slashdot from their cellphone!
From Japan!
In Akihabara!
* microlith goes and kills himself now
(anyone with hints on the previously mentioned issues, do post a reply)
Like I tell the twits who whine about the legit companies that translate and release anime, it takes time to do what the legit companies do.
Why is this?
It's because they play by the rules and ensure that those who are to be paid get paid, and that the product is done right.
Companies that have to pay for the rights to do stuff, and have a lot more to risk from horrible mistakes, cannot compete with those who can do it for free.
Grow up and have some patience. What you want is coming, it just takes time. Fucking impatient whiners.
Maybe if the fans had two bits of sense they'd realise that you don't say "I'm a big fan!" then proceed to piss all over the rights of the author/creator/those associated with them that you're a fan of.
You THINK, then act. That they'd get in trouble should have been obvious, or at least a very reasonable conclusion.
In the grand scheme of things, either you go now or someone else goes instead of you. And in the end if you get killed/maimed/lost, someone will probably be following behind you not long after.
That is unless this whole public perception of DANGEROUS = BAD AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED continues.
I've found many cases where I've used my GBA SP that the ambient light level was too low to use it without the light.
I can only say that adding the light makes it much more a portable unit than before. I tried playing DOOM on my friend's GBA under a desklamp, but it was still too dark to play. I can play it on my SP in total darkness and see everything.
I got mine back in March, shortly before I came to Japan.
To say the least, it's worth the money. Even more so if you (like I) owned zero consoles before it.
The thing lasts forever with the light on, and even longer with the light off. And it's very, very small. Only downside might be the attachment you have to buy for the headphone jack but the sound isn't really that important.
Nintendo did an awesome job with the SP. Now if only they had 4 buttons instead of just A and B...
But there'll be far less, and it'll be harder to find.
And don't think that people trading will be content to buy the cds of those indie bands everyone here on slashdot parades so much. The traders would just as soon warez everything than pay anyone a single cent.
And while you might point at the Apple Music Store as an exception, it is a very small, very uncommon case.
Again: Microsoft is a monopoly, and has been convicted of abusing it.
Apple is NOT and never was a monopoly. Calling what apple has over their hardware and software a monopoly is a joke compared to microsoft.
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Because a casemod like this is a purely artistic mod.
In fact, all casemods are purely visual, and convey no meaning relative to the speed of the PC.
Whereas, people who do all that funny stuff to their cars are TRYING to make them look and sound all fast and powerful so people think they are. Unless of course they ARE but that's kinda rare.
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The issue no one seems to realize is that the audience that is giving them hell is not people like you.
The ones that ARE giving them hell are those who download everything and anything, and share it all the time with anyone that can access their machine.
Now I'd say the majority of the people who do this would never all the music they download. Why? In some cases, yes, it's impossible. The other more likely case is that they sinmply don't want to now that they've gotten it for free.
This whole bitchfest is due to one big thing, and that is two tides of GREED clashing. One will win over the other, and the end result will likely not be good for anyone.
If the RIAA wins, we end up clamped down, litigated all the time for their greed and demands. They as the record companies are at a disadvantage due to the fact that they require money to exist as they do now.
If the filesharers win, while you might be satisfied with scraping through the thousands of independents, those who ARE really good and deserve/want a shot at a wider audience need support. And sometimes a creative work can cost more than a CD pressing run or a website. But even if they were to take that venture on their own, the filesharers come back in force and will more than likely chose to take the free route as opposed to ever buying the CD. Thus acts will stay small, good bands will come into existence, rock, and flick out without ever being known (I'm sure for every few bands your friends have heard of there were likely others you would have liked/ones that were better that you never heard of.)
Right but for every one of you, there's a ton of people out there who download the music without ever buying the CD, even if they might have before.
"Why buy what you can get for free!" they say.
"There's nowhere to go, so let's not go there."
Well if you don't go how the hell are the things that aren't there, going to? You can't just sit on your ass and wait for them to spontaneously pop into existence (unless you have real tea), then visit them.
Unlike air travel, with space flight you have to make your destination. That much should be obvious.
No, people have no respect for it anyways.
They want what they want for FREE and they expect nothing less.
Yes, but what about the rest of the UI.
If you hadn't noticed, at least on windows the widgets deform horribly when the fontsize is increased.
And some widgets don't handle resizing well and thus deform the UI to the point of being unusable.
Being based on OpenGL, PDF, and making extensive use of TrueType fonts, I was under the impression that Quartz and MacOS X were aptly suited for this sort of use.
IIRC, essentially the entire UI is vector graphics (being done by OpenGL and all), so Apple might have this covered.
Indeed, a 200ppi display would be nice, but not at 21" or smaller sizes.
Who are you kidding. You won't be able to fast forward through those previews!
You post a copy of a work that doesn't belong to you on a network and thousands download it.
It's the same as any old copyright infringement, in that you do not have permission to distribute it.
There may be some flaky legal ground if you download something and own a copy already, but the person you got it from still violated the copyright.
A song is the same song, whether it's an OGG or on CD. It is a copy, albeit in a different format. And if you're going to nitpick about the format, then you're just trying to make excuses.
Copying the song to OGG or MP3 is fair use. Posting said song on Kazaa is copyright infringement because you do not have permission to distribute that song.
I modified one of the headline grabbers written in PHP on the slashdot faq page (ok, I rewrote the thing by hand to make it use mysql), and redid the output so it'd look decent on a cellphone.
Only problem is the comment itself isn't in the XML (hint hint!), so it's mostly useless. I even made it work with slashdot.jp, but I can't figure out how to make it convert from EUC to SJIS and JIS (some phones use JIS, some SJIS, none EUC).
Think, a bit more and one could totally geek out by reading and posting to slashdot from their cellphone!
From Japan!
In Akihabara!
* microlith goes and kills himself now
(anyone with hints on the previously mentioned issues, do post a reply)
That's the Emotive AI, not the Ethical AI.
One step away from a Genuine People Personality though!
Like I tell the twits who whine about the legit companies that translate and release anime, it takes time to do what the legit companies do.
Why is this?
It's because they play by the rules and ensure that those who are to be paid get paid, and that the product is done right.
Companies that have to pay for the rights to do stuff, and have a lot more to risk from horrible mistakes, cannot compete with those who can do it for free.
Grow up and have some patience. What you want is coming, it just takes time. Fucking impatient whiners.
Maybe if the fans had two bits of sense they'd realise that you don't say "I'm a big fan!" then proceed to piss all over the rights of the author/creator/those associated with them that you're a fan of.
You THINK, then act. That they'd get in trouble should have been obvious, or at least a very reasonable conclusion.
At a wonderful 640x480 resolution.
That's hardly photograph quality. Much less worth putting up in one's office.
Hell even their higher resolutions are only 1280x1024. It seems they're also rather stingy on the resolution.
You sir, are replaceable.
In the grand scheme of things, either you go now or someone else goes instead of you. And in the end if you get killed/maimed/lost, someone will probably be following behind you not long after.
That is unless this whole public perception of DANGEROUS = BAD AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED continues.
The guy who said this should be found and have his ass kicked.
On principle. (Never mind that he's almost entirely wrong...)
Oh, I thought you were referring to this experiment.
I hear it didn't quite work out as well though.
People would repeal it even if it was fair.
Even if it was cut down to 7 or 14 years then into the public domain people would still "repeal" it on an individual basis.
Why? Because people are greedy, on both sides of the argument.
I've found many cases where I've used my GBA SP that the ambient light level was too low to use it without the light.
I can only say that adding the light makes it much more a portable unit than before. I tried playing DOOM on my friend's GBA under a desklamp, but it was still too dark to play. I can play it on my SP in total darkness and see everything.
And it's still just as spooky ^^
More like a wish.
I'd have liked it to be more like a full SNES controller, than a weird blend of the NES and SNES controllers.
The upper L and R buttons are moderately useful.
I've been in Japan since April 1st, and the black GBA SP is all over the place here.
I'm suprised Nintendo is waiting until September to release it in the 'states.
The red one is nice looking though. I'll stick with my silver though.
I got mine back in March, shortly before I came to Japan.
To say the least, it's worth the money. Even more so if you (like I) owned zero consoles before it.
The thing lasts forever with the light on, and even longer with the light off. And it's very, very small. Only downside might be the attachment you have to buy for the headphone jack but the sound isn't really that important.
Nintendo did an awesome job with the SP. Now if only they had 4 buttons instead of just A and B...
Nope, the music won't die.
But there'll be far less, and it'll be harder to find.
And don't think that people trading will be content to buy the cds of those indie bands everyone here on slashdot parades so much. The traders would just as soon warez everything than pay anyone a single cent.
And while you might point at the Apple Music Store as an exception, it is a very small, very uncommon case.
The obvious answer is that you do not own the copyright, therefore you are not permitted to redistribute it.
The fact that this escapes you makes me wonder what the hell you're doing arguing about it.
Again: Microsoft is a monopoly, and has been convicted of abusing it.
Apple is NOT and never was a monopoly. Calling what apple has over their hardware and software a monopoly is a joke compared to microsoft.
Because a casemod like this is a purely artistic mod.
In fact, all casemods are purely visual, and convey no meaning relative to the speed of the PC.
Whereas, people who do all that funny stuff to their cars are TRYING to make them look and sound all fast and powerful so people think they are. Unless of course they ARE but that's kinda rare.